[tor-relays] Home Tor Middle Relay Blacklisted

Fellow Tor Operators:

After about 9 months of running Tor as a Middle Relay from my home network, I’m beginning to experience signs of my public semi-static IPv4 address being blacklisted with 403 Forbidden errors from Reuters and Venmo. I’ve confirmed by successfully accessing both sites with my mobile internet connection.

I’m not surprised that Venmo is blacklisting, but extremely surprised I’m being blocked by Reuters. You would think such a organization would be a proponent of free speech. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reuters used Tor in some capacity. It doesn’t make sense.

When Googling my public semi-static IPv4 address, it appears in several Tor blacklists. That being said, I’m at the point that, at a minimum, I will have to ask my ISP to freshen my public semi-static IPv4 address.

Previously, when speaking with my ISP, they mentioned offering a static IPv6 address at no cost. I’m wondering if that offer was with the expectation that I would have to give up my existing IPv4 semi-static address? If they provided both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, at no cost, I’d like to run a Tor Bridge using the semi-static IPv4 address and configure my existing Middle Tor Relay to use the new static IPv6 address. That way, I’ll be able to browse unimpeded through the semi-static IPv4 address and not have to be concerned with the static IPv6 address being blacklisted.

Are other Tor Operators experiencing similar issues? Will I continue to experience blacklisting issues, even after migrating to a Tor Bridge? What are best practices in moving an existing Tor Relay to a new address, while avoiding the loss of flags?

As always, I appreciate the feedback.

Respectfully,

Gary

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Hey,

afaik it is discouraged to "recycle" an IP that was already known to be a Tor node as a bridge.
Also I don't think it is possible to run a node IPv6 only. That being said, if you give have to give up IPv4 for IPv6 depends entirely on your ISP; with mine at home I can choose either IPv4 only or DS-Lite, my parents recently got Dual-Stack IPv6.

Greetings
Sebastian Elisa

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On 10.01.2022 02:46, Gary C. New via tor-relays wrote:

Fellow Tor Operators:

After about 9 months of running Tor as a Middle Relay from my home
network, I'm beginning to experience signs of my public semi-static
IPv4 address being blacklisted with 403 Forbidden errors from Reuters
and Venmo. I've confirmed by successfully accessing both sites with my
mobile internet connection.

I'm not surprised that Venmo is blacklisting, but extremely surprised
I'm being blocked by Reuters. You would think such a organization
would be a proponent of free speech. I wouldn't be surprised if
Reuters used Tor in some capacity. It doesn't make sense.

When Googling my public semi-static IPv4 address, it appears in
several Tor blacklists. That being said, I'm at the point that, at a
minimum, I will have to ask my ISP to freshen my public semi-static
IPv4 address.

Previously, when speaking with my ISP, they mentioned offering a
static IPv6 address at no cost. I'm wondering if that offer was with
the expectation that I would have to give up my existing IPv4
semi-static address? If they provided both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, at
no cost, I'd like to run a Tor Bridge using the semi-static IPv4
address and configure my existing Middle Tor Relay to use the new
static IPv6 address. That way, I'll be able to browse unimpeded
through the semi-static IPv4 address and not have to be concerned with
the static IPv6 address being blacklisted.

Are other Tor Operators experiencing similar issues? Will I continue
to experience blacklisting issues, even after migrating to a Tor
Bridge? What are best practices in moving an existing Tor Relay to a
new address, while avoiding the loss of flags?

As always, I appreciate the feedback.

Respectfully,

Gary

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